Aparna V. Huzurbazar Project Lead, Systems MTE, Enhanced Surveillance Campaign Statistical Sciences, CCS-6 PO Box 1663, MS-F600 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM, 87545 USA   Dr. Aparna V. Huzurbazar serves as the Project Lead for the Systems MTE of LANL’s Enhanced Surveillance Campaign (ESC). ESC is one of NNSA’s Engineering Campaigns that brings both an engineering and science-based predictive capability to aging of nuclear weapons and maintains critical capabilities and expertise. The Systems MTE provides statistical and analytical support such as system modeling, age-aware models, tracking and trending data, and uncertainty quantification.

ESC work helps the Stockpile Stewardship Program, Core Surveillance and the Systems. The opportunities for statistical work encompass a broad range of areas including Bayesian statistics, reliability methods, experimental design, design and analysis of computer experiments, and complex computer modeling and simulation.

Projects supported by ESC Systems MTE:

• Surveillance Transformation and Data Provenance
• Integrated Reliability Methodology
• Projects leveraged with the DOE/DOD Joint Munitions Program:
• Munitions Stockpile Reliability Assessment
• Complex System Health Assessment
• QMU Sensitivity/Performance Studies
• Quantitative Surveillance Metric Development

Prior to joining LANL, Dr. Huzurbazar was a tenured, full professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Mexico. She has expertise in flowgraph and multistate models, Bayesian statistics, reliability and industrial statistics, and survival analysis. She is the author of Flowgraph Models for Multistate Time-to-Event Data (Wiley, 2005). She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.

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